From what I have been seeing/reading you're pretty much in line. Most people seem to think the "break out" or "break down" will happen sometime around mid June. If you use Tradingview there's this really odd indicator you can use called the Hash Ribbons. It has predicted Buy signals with an eerie accuracy several times in the past. Someone recently added a line to predict when it would signal another buy (If you're using Tradingview search for "Hash Ribbons JD") and it says next buy signal in 3 days. Historically it takes about a week after the buy signal for the price breakout to happen. And that puts it 10 days out, around the 11-12th of this month.
Combine this with the pendant formed by tracking this current sideway trading and....
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The two reasons I have hope are those bottom indicators. The BBWP historically has shown that once you hit 100% volatility during a downtrend (the rainbow line), once the SMA starts trending downwards and volatility gets down into the blue is , the majority of the time, when a big push up happens for BTC. The one on the bottom is the Hash Ribbons and it's indicating the miner market capitulation happened back around April 25th, and the buy sign should happen on the 4th of June. Without those two indicators I will admit I'd be close to pulling a "move every single penny to stablescoins and wait to see which way she goes", but as it is I have only drawn around 25% out to stables....
The buy signal is on June 10th ish or the price breakout is on June 10th ish?
I was playing around with MarketWatch and found
Bollinger Bands. Apparently, they're SMA's on a % to account for volatility and help predict breakouts.
The first blue circle where the high and low bands are "squeezing" is called consolidation. Consolidation is a signal for a breakout. The red arrow shows the candle breaking above the high and therfore stonks go up. Conversely, if a candle breaks the low at the end of consolidation stonks go down.
The blue arrows show where we are now, and the high and low will have to squeeze pretty rapidly to get to consolidation over the next 10 days. Theoretically, as the high and low signals squeeze, a breakout will occur and we'll know what kind of game we're playing.
It is also preferable to see the upper and lower band starting to widen in a breakout scenario. The widening of the bands suggests an increase in volatility to confirm the move out of a consolidation and into a new trend.
Based on my first chart it looked like we were entering consolidation in the beginning of April, where the candle broke above the high, but then it defintely broke down. So, my guess is that it wasn't a tight enough squeeze to be a true indicator and there was still too much volatility. See below, where the first squeeze shows the correct breakout, and the "second squeeze" which still may be too volatile to be a real squeeze, shows a head fake.
But, again, most recently, we see a squeeze occur, the breakout happen below the low and we see the corresponding downward trend occur.
So, it seems the takeaway is that the more extreme the squeeze, the lower the volatility, and the more reliable the breakout signal becomes. The wider the bands, the more volatility, and therefore the less reliable the breakout.
[edit] Just realized I didn't use candles in several charts. The breakouts are harder to read using lines, so sorry for the lines.